Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 193
"He had a right to do as he did in those times," said Holberg; "but now we have left those times behind us."
Who acts: Kai, Holberg, we · What happens: have, do, say, leave · To what, where: right · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kai, Holberg, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 right | det |
| 5 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | acl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 did | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 times | det |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 did | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Holberg | Holberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 left | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 left | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | conj |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 times | det |
| 26 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 left | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 left | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Kai | a right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Kai not said here | a right not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | Kai | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Holberg | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | present · perfect | we | now; time | behind us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind we=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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